Senator Mitch McConnell and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are reported as saying that the President will sign legislation to fund the g'mint and, also, sign an exec order declaring a 'national crisis' at the southern border. In doing so he will quell some dim anxiety over keeping g'mint open and create a fracas in congress/senate over 'abuse of exec power' re declaring a national crisis. I suspect GOP globalists will fight him harder than the dims over funding the wall thru declaring a crisis at the border.

How do you get explicit content into the public eye? You spell
it out in graphic detail on a well-known DC Law Firm's stationary
and let them release it to the press. That is, you get the
law firm now representing you - Katz, Marshall & Banks
LLC - to release your statement to the press and to provide
a copy online for public perusal.

Do you know a family who has lost a son or father or wife or sister to the war in Afghanistan? Do you know someone who knows someone? Perhaps not, but thousands of lives have been affected: directly by death and injury and indirectly by what their families have had to live through and deal with.

Before he headed off to sit in Koch's lap - in other words, to attend his annual confab and adoringly transmit their latest objectives to his readers - the Washington Post's James Hohmann affirmed in his Daily 202 newsletter that the shutdown has proven (one should use the past simple rather than the present perfect because this specific Daily 202 was published a day before the shutdown ended so please forgive my mixed tenses) that government in all it's sprawling forms is essential to life in America.

They're already sounding the death knell on Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign over at Rolling Stone. In a hit piece by Ryan Bort, Gabbard's rather conservative past positions have been dragged back into the spotlight. That's what happens when you announce a run for president, of course. But it seems that what most infuriates the progressive left is her past involvement with social conservatism.

Coming up on a new year here. I would like to end the year with PRAISE for President Trump. First year in near a decade where citizens feel like our gov't is listening to the people and working to carry out a populist agenda. A great time to be an Independent.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP, HAPPY NEW YEAR AND, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

You can consider the latest frantic back 'n forth between Trump and Congress on the border wall and the remaining funding bills as somehow lurching the country towards a Christmas crisis, in the words of The Hill's John Bennett. Or you can see this as Trump finally taking on, in a way he hasn't really yet, the way business is done in Washington. That is, it's a case of Trump finally implementing policy the way he sees fit.

Sorely amazed that the GOP has had the Executive, House, and Senate for 2 yrs and, outside of a couple of firings, retirements, none of the conspirators working against Trump have been held accountable. I assume Paul Ryan and the GOP Trump haters in the House and Senate have stymied any/all paths leading to accountability.

Had President Trump and Minority (and soon to be Majority) leaders Pelosi and Schumer gone behind closed doors to hammer out some sort of deal to fund a border wall or border security or something in exchange for avoiding a shutdown of government, the purpose of the process would have been perverted or gamed by the spin they put on it afterwards.

One broken steel hook on an aging transmission tower might have been the cause of the Camp Fire that quickly and ferociously spread and took 85 lives a few weeks ago in Central California near the Bay area. How do we know this?